Marion Darling Pancake 1857-1884
2010
Marion Darling Pancake was the eighth child of thirteen born to his parents Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling. He was born in Jefferson Township in Coshocton County, Ohio. He came to Utah with his sister Carrie and her husband Albert Conwell before 1880. They are found together in the census in Springville, Utah County, Utah. Marion and his brother-in-law Albert worked together in a mine. Within three years, the rest of Marion’s family migrated to Utah. His parents. His married siblings and their families. His unmarried siblings. All became involved as investors in Utah mines. Marion and Albert continued to work in them. In 1884, at the age of 27, Marion died of consumption. Tuberculosis. Marion had not married. His death prompted his father Samuel to purchase a plot of twelve graves in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City. The price was $40. That purchase suggests to us that this large family intended to make Utah their home.
Marion was the first person buried in the new plot. His grave was not marked. Two years later his brother-in-law Albert Conwell, with whom he had mined for many years died also. Of the same thing. When our research introduced us to Samuel Pancake and his family in the year 2001, we found that many members of Marion’s family had been laid to rest near him. Eventually, Marion’s father Samuel was buried there. The sexton says that the two men take up three graves. Three graves had not been marked. It was only through the discovery of the Death Book that we knew what we had to do. Through family contributions we placed grave stones for Marion Darling Pancake, his father Samuel Crawford Pancake and little Martin Watrous. Martin lived and died in 1885 and was the grandson of Samuel and the nephew of Marion. Each year we stop by to clean the grave stones and to remember a most interesting ancestral family.
The migration of Marion Darling Pancake
Ohio to Illinois to Utah